Mother/Vessel brings together precarious sculptures and photographic assemblages that suggest  the everyday terrain of care — its joys and discomforts, its structures and collapses. Their work makes visible the labor of parenting and reaches into the maternal body as a site of transformation: growth, loss, and the cells that cross the placenta and remain in the body for a lifetime.

Eleanor Oakes is a Detroit-based photographic artist whose practice explores bodily, spatial, and geologic memory through a feminist lens. Assistant Professor of Photography at the College for Creative Studies and founder of Darkroom Detroit. MFA, Stanford. BA, Princeton.

Katie Shulman is a Detroit-based textile sculptor working with wire, found objects, and fabric to engage themes of pregnancy, miscarriage, identity, and bodily autonomy. Arts administrator, educator, and founder of Fiber Club* — a creative network across Southeast Michigan. MFA, Syracuse. BFA, University of Michigan.

50m